Does SGI offer an Upgrade 3030 -> Pers.Iris for students

[Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854]

    SGI has offered us the "oportunity" of "upgrading" our 3130's to 4D's.
It's what we call around here a "forklift" upgrade.  In other words, you send
them your old machine PLUS MANY $$, and then they send you a 4D.  The
upgrade was a joke as far as we were concerned.  Basically, they were
allowing a ~$8k on the old machine and we couldn't upgrade to a Personal, it
had to be a higher end machine.  The 3000's are completely incompatable
with the 4D's so you can't just do some board swapping.
Sorry about the bad news.  Hope this helps.
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	Brent L. Bates
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